April 17th (2014) was a Thursday. It's the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days left to the end of the year.
April 17th Famous Deaths for 2014
» Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Fania All-Stars) (b. 1935)
» Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
» Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (b. 1922)
» Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish–American architect and academic (b. 1938)
» Karl Meiler, German tennis player (b. 1949)
» L. Jay Oliva, American academic (b. 1933)
» Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1940)
April 17th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints named Feast Day:
» Benedict Joseph Labre
» Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada)
» Stephen Harding
» April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter. (Denmark)
» Evacuation Day (Syria) called Evacuation Day, celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946.